The metaphors and imagery create a dark and mournful tone that conveys the suffocating feeling of impending death. Elie Wiesel uses many different metaphors in the story Night that create a dark feeling to show us what the environment is like, as he experiences it himself. The use of imagery is shown throughout the story as Wiesel explains his observations and experience, but also describes other subjects at the camp that let the reader visualize how hostile the camp was. As this dark and mournful feeling run throughout, we learn how scarred the Jewish people ended up as they had to watch many other citizens be burned to death and as they had to survive many long days without food, water, and the feeling of hopelessness. Metaphors used in
